I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Albacete May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Albacete
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Albacete The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Albacete
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Albacete Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Albacete
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Albacete Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Albacete
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Albacete "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Albacete
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Albacete When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Albacete
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Albacete "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Albacete
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Albacete And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Albacete
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Albacete "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Albacete
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Albacete Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Albacete
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Albacete I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Albacete
